Suggestions

[Chimosa Hake]

Traits

Logistics: (E)D-S: The ability to keep track of troop supplies and movements both on land and on water and to keep troops fed, armed and armored and content. Improving ranks increases the amount of people one can move and supply and the distance over which he can keep track of them.

Strategic field: short: (E)D-S: The strategist can see the eb and flow of the fight close around him and is capable of 'seeing' it and directing it to his will with commands, minute movements and strategies. The strategist has difficulty with 'seeing' longer distances and directing troops in bigger numbers or with grander strategies. These strategists excel at melee and skirmishes in contained spaces. (Yukimura Sanada, Masamune Date,...)

Strategic field: medium: (E)D-S: The strategist has a larger overview of the battlefield but can neither direct minute detailed strategies or movements on the battlefield nor can he grasp the entirety of a kingdom's armies to see the full picture of things. These strategists excel at army combat on large fields and city defense or attack. (Masamune Date's Right eye of the dragon, Sakon Shima, Toyotomi Hideyoshi,...)

Strategic field: large: (E)D-S: The strategist can see the entirety of a kingdom, grasping movements of entire armies and directing his own to counter them. These strategists usually control multiple armies and movements on multiple fronts at the same time with ease. While he has a masterful grasp of the larger movements of armies he loses edge in small time skirmishes or even in fights between two armies. (Nobunaga, Shingen, Uesugi,...)

(One strategist can only have maximum of C rank in all three. Only one of the three can go higher than C. There is no turning back later. (like trial of the gods) This does not mean that one is completely incapable of directing troops at short range if one chooses long range, it is just easy for them to overlook things close by or more difficult for them to react to sudden changes)

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I saw this in the Kingdom manga and I found it intriguing and interesting. Nobody can be good at everything.

Items

Normal clothing: I see people wearing full sets of Dark ranger armor of the ubergod while going for a snack with their best friends. And the shops lack any normal, every day clothing. I realize this is perhaps just a vanity thing and that most people will spend 95% of their time on battlefields on a forum like this but it would be nice to be able to wear outfits that don't consist of metal plates, spiky metal helmets, glasses that render dust immaterial and demon chariots.

Forum

A matchmaker thread were people can look for others to work out plots with. I'm not quite sure how those things work around here yet but it seems like a central location where people can put their thread ideas for their characters and personal story events they want to write out would be a good idea. I think at the moment you PM someone, like I do for now. I think it would be easier to have one place where you can make a thread for your character, list everything you want to do and let other people read it. If someone is interested they can reply and you can hash out your thread together.

I found it. So instead we should have an updated starter guide with a link to said matchmaker forum.


That's it for now. I had something else in mind but I can't remember it for now. I'll add it once I remember it. I realize most of these things are strategy related, which is more for characters like my own, but it seems only appropriate that there are traits and perks for people who do not want to get up close and duel it out with others. Settings like these lend themselves incredibly well to people looking to simply create a kingdom or fight large wars, rather than always have the one on one duels or skirmishes.

[Oda Nobunaga]

I can give a fuller opinion on the strategy thing later. For now, though, I believe it puts player factions at an incredible disadvantage due to their lack of possible players, while the GMed factions (Oda, Takeda, etc.) have anywhere from five to 17+ officers they can use for different strategic purposes. I'm all for growing in different aspects, but, much like other proficiencies, if we did implement these, I would rather not limit them.

There's an RP Request sub-board in the OoC people can use. Almost no one has.

People don't have to buy non-stat attire. If they want to make some in the custom item shop, that's fine, but you can basically say your character is wearing whatever you want them to. The inventory is only there for your stat items. This doesn't mean you're stark naked at all times because you have nothing in your inventory, and it doesn't mean that characters can only wear what they have in it.

[Chimosa Hake]

You can't really just pick a strategic aptitude for a general. Some of the NPCs have no tactical aptitude at all. And large factions often have large territories requiring more generals to keep everything under control. It's not as if every Takeda castle has a general of each strategical field at S-rank on standby, right? And the same is true for the proficiencies you already have in place. What is stopping Nobunaga from having 2 S-rank warriors in each proficiency? That way PC factions wouldn't be able to win since they'd face overwhelming odds from S-rank leadership generals while being sniped down by S-rank archers trying to whittle away at S-rank fitness generals while their own commanders men are being cut down by invisible S-rank stealth generals. But all in all, that's fine. It's your world and your decision.

As for the logistics proficiency, I think that would work. Together with leadership it could increase troop command ability once proficiencies are active in game. But again, up to you.

I found the RP request sub board and posted in it. Shou was kind enough to reply to it.

And thank you for the information. So I can wear whatever without having to pay for it as long as it doesn't provide any stats?

Edit: I remembered.
Charisma: (E)D-S: The ability to attract people to your cause. It also helps to attract the opposite sex. (This proficiency would determine the amount of troops you have, while leadership determines your ability to actually lead the amounts of people you have. While not required for making your own faction, obviously it is a good skill to have.)